Dick Tracy, Detective

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Dick Tracy, Detective ★★ 1945

The first Dick Tracy feature film, in which Splitface is on the loose, a schoolteacher is murdered, the Mayor is threatened, and a nutty professor uses a crystal ball to give Tracy the clues needed to connect the crimes. 62m/B VHS, DVD . Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki, Jane Greer, Lyle Latell; D: William Berke; W: Eric Taylor; C: Frank Redman; M: Roy Webb.